ABOUT JMC

Credit: JUSTINE MATTHEW.

2026 PROJECTS

Talawa Firsts: INTRODUCTORY WRITERS’ GROUP SHOWCASE | Talawa Theatre Company

PAUSE/REWIND | Short Film | As Co-Director | Originally devised by the 2025 Bush Theatre 14-17 Young Company

Almeida Young Company: BRINK | As Co-Director | Almeida Theatre

Daniel Kaluuya’s Centre 59: …BEFORE I WAKE | Roundhouse

MARIE & ROSETTA (West End Premiere) | As Associate Director | @sohoplace

DIRECTING CREDITS

PAUSE/REWIND originally devised by the 2025 Bush Theatre 14-17 Young Company | Short Film | Co-Director

TALAWA FIRSTS: INTRODUCTORY WRITERS’ SHOWCASE | Talawa Theatre Company | Jul 2026

  • BATHSHEBA & DAVID by Afua Ofori-Darko

  • NAUMACHIA by Isaiah James-Mitchell

  • STILL WATER by Kemi Awoderu

  • SACRED GROUND by Brett Curtis

ALMEIDA YOUNG COMPANY: BRINK | Almeida Theatre | May 2026

  • TRAD FAM MUM & DAD by Stefanie Reynolds

  • KILO, FOXTROT, NOVEMBER by Martha Loader

DANIEL KALUUYA’S CENTRE 59: …BEFORE I WAKE | Roundhouse (Sold Out) | Apr 2026

DEAD INTERNET by Ayan Philip | R&D | Riverside Studios | Oct 2025

  • Developed in partnership with Kiln Theatre, Tara Theatre & Riverside Studios

BUSH YOUNG COMPANY: PAUSE/REWIND | World Premiere | Bush Theatre | Aug 2025

AND by Thomas Draper | Theatre503 | Dec 2024

HIS NAME by Ibukun Olumoroti | Contact Theatre, Manchester | Oct 2024

TALAWA FIRSTS: AROMATHERAPY by Khai Shaw | Talawa Theatre Company | Jul 2024

EVOLUTION LABS: THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR | Adapted and directed by Jordi M. Carter | Lyric Hammersmith & UAL: Wimbledon College of Arts (Sold Out) | Mar 2024

BIG BOUNDLESS SHOW PRIZE: BLACK TERROR; OR, LOOKING FOR BILL by Kalungi Ssebandeke | R&D | Guildhall School of Music & Drama | Mar 2024

THE HIVVY by Luke Elliott | R&D | Hackney Showroom & Gateway Arts | Sept 2023

ASSOCIATE & ASSISTING CREDITS

MARIE & ROSETTA, starring Beverley Knight (as Associate Director to Monique Touko) | @sohoplace (West End Premiere) | Feb — Apr 2026.

  • The Times’ Critics Pick.

BILL CASHMORE AWARD (as Associate Director to Rebekah Murrell) | Lyric Hammersmith | Aug — Sept 2025.

  • FRIENDSGIVING by Shona Graham

  • THE MENDING CIRCLE by Chloe Yates

  • Performed by the 2025 Lyric Springboard Company.

MARIE & ROSETTA, starring Beverley Knight (As Associate Director to Monique Touko) | Rose Theatre Kingston, English Touring Theatre, Wolverhampton Grand & Chichester Festival Theatre (UK Premiere) | May — Jul 2025.

  • Black British Theatre Awards 2025 — Best Female Lead in a Play or Musical: Beverley Knight (Winner).

  • UK Theatre Awards 2025 — Best Supporting Performance: Ntombizodwa Ndlovu (Nomination).

ANIMAL FARM (as Assistant Director to Amy Leach) | Stratford East & Leeds Playhouse in association with Nottingham Playhouse) | Feb — Apr 2025.

  • UK Theatre Awards 2025 — Best Revival Play (Winner).

  • Olivier Awards 2025 — Best New Production in Affiliate Theatre (Nomination).

WE NEED NEW NAMES (as Assistant Director to Monique Touko) | Fifth Word & New Perspectives in association with Brixton House (National Tour) | Apr — Jun 2023.

SKILL SET

New writing | Dramaturgy | Devised performance | Script reading | Drama school productions | Training actors | Working with young people | Classical adaptations | Facilitation | Mentoring directors

2021

Joint BA (First Class with Honours): Drama & Film Studies — University of Sussex

  • Chancellor’s Class of 2021.

Taking Part & Creators Program Young Associate at the Young Vic (2021/22).

Included:

  • Introduction to Directing led by Diyan Zora (2021) and Introduction to Making, led by Leo Skillbeck (2022).

  • Secondment to Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director (Kwame Kwei-Armah).

  • YV UNPACKED: LOVE REIGN by Shereen Jasmin Phillips, dir. Stef O’Driscoll (2021).

  • FIVE PLAYS (Young Vic Creators Program, 2021).

  • TP25: OF THE CUT by Yasmin Joseph, dir. Philip J. Morris (2022).

2022

Young Producers Programme at Theatre Peckham.

Fresh Direction — Jerwood Artist Development Pathway at the Young Vic (2022/23).

  • Director training & development programme, led by Nimmo Ismail and Monique Touko.

2023

Inaugural Co-Artistic Director & CEO at Boundless Theatre.

Included:

  • Co-Executive Producer & Programmer: Boundless Boxes (Lambeth, Leicester & Croydon).

  • Co-Creative Lead: Talent Development Programme (Boundless Accelerator; Big Boundless Show Prize; Boundless Youth Advisory Board).

Recipient of Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice Grant (Round 18).

  • For specialist education and training in the craft of theatre directing, including the Black Acting Methods Studio (USA).

The Knot — Theatre Business Bootcamp with New Diorama Theatre, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Uproot Productions.

  • Created to equip early-career theatre-makers with practical business and entrepreneurial skills, focusing on non-artistic business necessities, including finance, funding, employment law, management responsibilities, and growth models.

2024

Lambeth Baylis Trustee at The Old Vic (2024/25).

  • Yearlong placement on The Old Vic’s Board of Trustees, to provide a youth perspective on the organisation’s activities, strategy and output.

2025

Trustee & Director (Non-Executive) at Chichester Festival Theatre (2025/28).

  • Co-Chair of the CFT Youth Advisory Board.

Joint MBA: Central Saint Martins | Birkbeck Master of Business Administration candidate (2025/27).

  • University of the Arts London (CSM) and Birkbeck, University of London, with a focus on strategic design, systems thinking, creative leadership, and innovation.

  • Awarded the Central Saint Martins Birkbeck MBA Scholarship (2025/26) for demonstrated purposeful community engagement and active leadership.

  • Recipient of the (Birkbeck) Santander Career Development Award (2025/26).